This weekly article gets to the heart of your fantasy decision making. The patterns and shortcuts our brains prefer to make don’t always result in our making the best choices. Now that we’ve made it to the fantasy playoffs, the hardest part isn’t over. We need to be extra careful about which players to trust going forward, and which to let go of. We need a fresh-eyed view for the next couple weeks, making sure we’re starting our optimal roster. It’s a bit less about Game Theory and more about simply putting the best foot forward. The difficulty is in benching highly-drafted famous name players for late-season waiver wire wonders. At the same time, we can’t let our recency bias get the better of us, either.

Before we get to the week at hand, I want to thank you all for being loyal readers and commenters. Your questions have inspired me with their difficulty and emphasized what this game is all about for me – the tough decisions. There has been no shortage of them,...